I'm not the Only One!

[Pete Askew]

A herd of Segways grazing at the Lennon Wall in Prague!

Leica M9 + 35mm Leica Summilux M f1:1.4. ISO 320 1/25s at f1:2.8. PP in LR and Nik ColorFX 4.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Never thought these things would catch on. Are there many of them around?

I like the line separating them from the bipeds

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Love the PP, absolutely LOVE the PP!!

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks all. There were a few herds in Prague and there are some in Potsdam also. So far just isolated groups. I just hope tey don't evolve to being able to get up and down stairs!

 

[Lesley Jones]

I love the PP too. I've never seen those things other than on breakfast TV - I had no idea people really use them in the street

 

[Pete Askew]

They do Segway tours. You get trained and then they take you to see various highlights.

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

Meaningful composition, Pete.

Paying respect to the composer of IMAGINE (that we won't need to use our legs to walk one day)

 

[Hamish Gill]

id feel like a right nober on one.
Makes for an interesting shot though

 

[Paul Lange]

And to think the Sinclair C5 never took off! What is wrong with this world. Maybe he was just ahead of his time and in the 80s before computers became so widespread there just wasn't enough nerds.

 

[Pete Askew]

I suspect that might have been part of its downfall Paul - you're ahead of nobody in C5 and the view of the backs of people's knees has a rather specialist appeal!

Thanks Nihat and Hamish.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

What do you call a group of Segways?

A plunge of Segways perhaps?

I like the contrast of the older men on the Segways, and the younger women all on foot - it's as if the Segway guys are tourists from another dimension, come to observe our world.

And in that other dimension they wear silly helmets and nerdy jackets

 

[Darren Bradley]

I always think of shopping mall security guards when I see Segways. Even in this age when nerds are cool, these things aren't.

 

[Brian Moore]

Fabuloso, Pete! Love the colors and messages oan the wa' as well as the people engaging in deeply philosophical conversations.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks all. Segways. I guess plunge might work! They are one of those annoying things that you wouldn't be seen dead on but secretly you'd like to have a go on.

 

[David Mitchell]

Budget cuts....

 

[Pete Askew]

Yep, even with machine guns they look silly!

 

[Andrew Cotterill]

I've never seen these in the wild before!

 

[Glen Roberts]

I used to have a Sinclair C5 and even managed to roll one that had a petrol engine in it, but I'd still love to have a go on one of them Segway things (even if the guy who invented them killed himself on one[doh]).

 

[Beth Anthony]

the wheeled monsters have their smaller biped prey cornered.. they're just waiting for the right moment to pounce on their unsuspecting lunch.

 

[Darren Bradley]

These are quite common in the US, but are banned on public roads in Britain, so that's why you guys aren't familiar, I think. The guy who died riding one was a Brit. He recently bought the company. But he did not invent it. That was Dean Kamen, who is still alive.